Clément Papachristou
Clément Papachristou is an actor, choreographer and director. For a long time he has been interested in inclusive choreographic practices, and his work focuses in particular on relationships between the body and collective history. After Almanach (2017), he presented Une tentative presque comme une autre with his brother Guillaume at the Festival de Marseille in 2020 and La Grotte in 2022.
Guillaume Papachristou
Guillaume Papachristou is involved in performing arts projects in Marseille and Brussels. He has cerebral palsy and is a member of the mixed theatre collective Les Arteliers and the inclusive dance project Mixability run by choreographer Andrew Graham. For the past 5 years he has worked regularly on stage with his twin brother Clément.
John Deneuve
John Deneuve lives and works in Marseille. Her work combines text, installation, performance, music, sound experimentation, video and painting to develop a multi-facetted world. Like the pseudonym she has adopted, she plays with codes and conventions and powerfully parodies society. Through her art she asks questions about the boundaries between art and non-art, good and bad taste, coded references and unbridled transgressions. John Deneuve is a member of TRANSFORM!
No Anger
Since 2015 the artist and author No Anger has been running a blog titled À mon geste défendant which explores their own experience of physical disability from a feminist and queer perspective. They received a PhD in political science in 2019 analysing how the worldview produced by TV, film and advertising impacts perceptions of women’s bodies and LGBT+ people and alienates their sexuality, and ways in which such hegemonic interpretations can be challenged. Through their artistic practice combining video art, performance art and writing, they develop a critique of ableism. Their performances have been presented at ENS Lyon, at the MAC VAL - Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, at the Palais de Tokyo and at the Centre Pompidou. Their work was awarded the Prix Utopi·e in 2023.
Lucie Camous
Lucie Camous is a researcher, artist and curator. She seeks to create spaces of discussion that make it possible to think collectively about ways in which artists, activists and researchers can design aesthetic approaches and modes of interpretation to combat ableism.
Marie Astier
Marie Astier is an artist and researcher. In 2018, she presented her performance art thesis titled Presence and representation of mental disability on the contemporary French stage. She is now mainly interested in the question of practices shared by disabled and non-disabled actors (including workshops supported by the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, the inclusive school troupe initiated by the Théâtre de la Colline and tutorials at Arras University).
Transform!
With a festival and quarterly events, TRANSFORM! Presents an international programme in Marseille focusing on contemporary gender issues. A multi-disciplinary organisation, it combines artistic practices with queer, feminist and intersectional approaches.
